"What did she do to them?"
"She made them crazy . Drunk sex, since it's a whore, I guess."
"What does sex have to do with Buddhists?"
"Maybe it awakens some deep maternal love. You know, men are like babies when they have sex. .Yi Jun, call me Po Sumituo from now on."
This is a movie recommended by a friend. South Korean director Kim Ki-duk's film, "Samarian Girl". The shocking beginning is a conversation between two beautiful high school girls, Jie Rong and Yi Jun.
Good movie, no matter which scene is not tasteless. Light music. The constantly passing landscape. Tree. Creeper's wall. Sculpture of a naked woman with a broken arm. Two beautiful girls were chasing and running in the ruins, and their laughter was like a silver bell.
In the small changing room, Jie Rong took off her well-behaved school uniform and put on an elegant and charming dress, and Yi Jun brushed pink rouge on her cheeks. A young and moving girl with some longing for the future. Jie Rong's eyes flashed with an evil streamer, and Yi Jun hugged her worriedly.
Yi Jun and Jie Rong want a plane ticket to travel to Europe, but they have nothing but their youth. Jierong sells her body and Yijun contacts customers for her. This absurd story is tragic from the very beginning. It's just that Kim Ki-duk doesn't handle it this way. Jie Rong doesn't resist having sex with a stranger. Sex seems to be a sacred and inviolable thing.
Jie Rong asked about every man's occupation. She likes to explore the unknown world, and she doesn't feel dirty. Yijun said with tears in her eyes, "I don't allow you to inquire about those beasts." Jie Rong picked up a musician with a handsome young face and slender fingers.
"He invited us to dinner." Jie Rong sat in the musician's car and said to Yi Jun, who stood outside the car angrily and complained: "Today is my mother's death anniversary, Jie Rong, come out quickly." You think I'm dirty, don't you?" The musician looked up at the stubborn and conflicted girl, ignoring her helpless crying and swearing.
"Jie Rong, let's stop, I'm afraid this matter will haunt you for the rest of your life." Yi Jun said this more than once. "I'm in love with that musician, and he still sings to me, what should I do?" Jie Rong's eyes were clear and she smiled lightly.
The death came as suddenly as the inspection. When the police broke in, Jie Rong drew a poignant arc from the hotel window, and her pure white body instantly burst into a blood-red flower on the ground. Yi Jun, who witnessed this scene, closed his eyes fiercely.
Jierong kept calling out the musician's name from the hospital bed. Yijun ran to find the musician and told him that Jierong was dying, but he sat in front of the piano, playing the rushing tune over and over again, too lazy to pay attention to the anxious girl who had humiliated her. This hint forced Yi Jun to pull on the musician's sleeve, begging him. Later, she was crushed on the piano by the man, startling a string of messy notes...
When Yijun and the musician rushed to the hospital, Jierong was already dead. There was a habitual smile on the corner of her mouth, as if she was asleep.
Watching Kim Ki-duk's films, you must give up the fairy tale complex of princes and princesses. If it is forever, it is not the simple and crude death of death, maybe it has disappeared, gone, reborn, forgotten, no matter what form, Jin Jide would like you to abandon your inherent mindset. The art of film lies in the discovery of clean and extraordinary beauty.
The plot about Jie Rong has ended, and Yi Jun must face the rest of the journey alone. For her, traveling to Europe is no longer important, she should do something for Jierong. She found a notebook to contact customers, wearing Jie Rong's dress, in the room where Jie Rong jumped off the building and died, had sex with every man Jie Rong took over, and then returned the money to them.
A girl, preaching with sex, saves a soul lost in materialistic desires.
Yijun tells every man Jie Rong's story, awakening their sleeping conscience. A gentleman said with tears, "We should all live in harmony and understand each other instead of hurting each other." From here, Kim Ki-duk's value orientation has been beautifully revealed. He does not preach unclean sex, violence and death, but through these to discover the goodness and beauty in the depths of people's souls.
Yijun's father discovered her abnormal behavior. This upright policeman did not expect that his normally well-behaved daughter would actually be reduced to a dusty woman. The angry father killed one of the clients without Yijun's knowledge. It's a chain of retribution. Kim Ki-duk has always placed things in an unimaginable and plausible cycle of cause and effect.
The father cried aggrievedly like a child at the grave of the deceased mother. He didn't know what he had done wrong, but he walked to the Jedi step by step.
Yijun accompanied his father to the countryside. Kim Ki-duk designed two endings. One is a dream of a father who killed his sleeping daughter and buried her by a creek. In reality, his father taught Yijun to drive, and Yijun studied attentively, and it finally paid off. A police car approached, and my father left Yijun with a smile.
Still a beautiful scene. A girl holding a steering wheel. Continuous exhaust of car exhaust. puddle. some splashes. The mountains in the distance seem to be soaked in mist, like a blurred fantasy. The father has accomplished his mission, and he has taught his daughter how to manage life.
There is such a story in the Bible: A Jew was beaten by robbers on the road, and his property was robbed. A priest passed by, just looked and waved away. A Levite passed by, but he didn't pay attention, and left on his own. At this time, a Samaritan passed by and rescued the Jews, carried them on the backs of donkeys to an inn, and left the money to pay for the medical bills, saying that if it was not enough, they would pay them in two days. The Lord Jesus said, "Love your neighbor like a Samaritan." The title of the
film comes from this allusion.
The beauty created by Kim Ki-deok is like a splash in the mud on a rainy day, slowly spreading out in the accumulated emotions, full of affection and sadness...
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